HOW TO KICK THE BUCKET IN NOTHIN' FLAT
By the Author. Original Wraps. No Edition Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 12 pp. Slightly soiled covers. Three sepia photographs. More
Western Americana
Indictment; Facts for Your Consideration
Waco, Texas: Published By Author, 1936. Original Wraps. 1st Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 40p., a curious argument proposing that Texas be divided into several states so as to make the region more powerful and save on cost of travel to Austin. Also claims Negroes were happy..... More
Curly Bill; Tombstone's Most Famous Outlaw
Lansing MI; (2003): Protar House. First Edition. Octavo. 181p. index. bibliography. notes, Photographs. Signed by the author limited to 200 copies (no 25 of 200). An important study on Curly Bill solving many problems based on a careful study of the documents. A fine copy bound in off white cloth..... More
The Real Wyatt Earp. a Documentary Biography
Silver City, NM. (2000): High-Lonesome Books. First Edition. Octavo. signed by the author, 248pp., edited by Neil B. Carmony. The story of Wyatt Earp from his birth to his death as his friends and enemies knew him. The author researched newspaper accounts, court records and documents to present the frontiersman..... More
The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biography
Silver City, New Mexico, U.S.A. High Lonesome Books, 2000. Cloth Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 248p. index. bibliography. photographs. A well-reseached study that has uncovered sources previously neglected. As Neal Carmony writes: "Steve Gatto has not been infected the "Wyatt worship" virus. Nor is he an..... More
Adventures of the Woman Homesteader, the Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. 218pp. index. B&W photographs. Fine/Fine. More
Six Years with the Texas Rangers; 1875-1881
Austin; (1921): Von Boeckmann-Jones. First Edition. Small Octavo. 332p. The author was an officer with Company A, Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers. Besides the six photographs of officers in the Rangers, there is also one of Dallas Stoudenmire. Besides talking about the requirements of becoming a Ranger, there is much about..... More
"THE COW KILLERS" WITH THE AFTOSA COMMISSION IN MEXICO
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1956. Octavo. 139pp, Signed and inscribed by Illustrator Bill Leftwich along with an original drawing of a man in a sombrero. Those who have read or seen Hud will remember how an outbreak of the Hoof and mouth disease outbreak in 1949 along the Texas/Mexican..... More
The Field Notes of Lt. Edward Settle Gaodfry...under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Sioux Encounter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Covering the Period May 17, 1876 When the Expedition Commanded By Brig. General Alfred H. Terry ...
(Portland, Oregon): Champoeg, 1957. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. 74p. Edited by Edgard I. Stewart and Jane R. Stewart with a note on the Kicking Bear Pictography by Carl S. Dentzel. index. notes. folding maps (Yellowstone and Missouri River Areas and Lt. Godfrey's Map of the Battle of..... More
Wyoming's Terrirorial Sheriffs
(Glendo, WY; 1998): High Plains Press. First Edition. Octavo. 318pp. Limited to 353 copies. The present copy is #201 signed and numbered by the author.. Illustrated by O.C. Seltzer.history of Wyoming County Sheriffs. Index. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, in pictorial dust jacket issued without flaps. A...... More
The Utah Expedition, 1857-1858; Letters of
Concord, N.H. New Hampshire Historical Society, 1928. Octavo. 443 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, plates. One of the most important of the first hand accounts of the "Utah War" when the U.S. Army marched for 1500 miles to quell rebellious Mormons. Brigham Young claimed that they were persecuted by "the Gentiles" and..... More
When Old Trails Were New . The Story of Taos
New York City;: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. A history of Taos, New Mexico and the people who made history through out time in Taos. Apparently rebound, but handsomely done in blue cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy. More
Centennial Campaign; the Sioux War of 1876
(Fort Collins, CO. 1976): The Old Army Press. First Edition. Octavo. 392p. index. notes. Maps at end and endpapers in red and blue. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt. A very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacekt with a few spots of rubbing, head chipped, spine faded..... More
Back to Back, Texas, Cow Horses, and the Vermont Maid, with Mr. Undertaker and the Cleveland Bay Horse
Austin: The Encino Press, 1970. Limited Edition. Oblong Small Octavo. Limited to 850 copies signed by the author. The present copy is number 671. 51(1)pp., Bound in red paper covered boards, spine lettering black, both boards with a photographic image of Mr. Green mountd, housed within a publisher's slipcase with..... More
ROAD TO SANTA FE - THE JOURNAL AND DIARIES OF GEORGE CHAMPLIN SIBLEY
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1952. First Edition. Dust Jacket. A Very Good Copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 280 pp. Soling. some light tears at extremities. More
Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion. The Experience of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, Pioneers of the Great West, 1856-1882, and Their Defence of the Building of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Cleveland, OH: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 299pp. Folding map. Text. Index. The far west was the vast country west of the Mississippi river, mostly unexplored with the exception of fur trappers. Travel was by horse or wagon. A horse would travel only three miles a...... More
Gunnison in Early Days (in the Colorado Magazine, Vol. VIII, 4 (July 1931)
Denver: State Historical Society of Colorado, 1931. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. article p. 121-129; photographs of pioneers, fire department in 1922, Sylvester Richardson's Cabin in 1877; also articles by LeRoy R. Hafen on Zebulon Montgomery Pike and P.G. Scotts "Diary of a Freighting Trip from..... More
Twenty-Four Years a Cowboy and Ranchman in Southern Texas and Old Mexico. Desperate Fights with th e Indians and Mexicans
Norman; (1959): University of Oklahoma Press. Small Octavo. There are only four copies of the original edition published in 1905 that have survived. No one knows why and no one seems to know who the author "really" was. We know his name but who was he? 183pp., bound in green..... More
George W. Littlefield Texan
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. First Edition. Octavo. 287p. index. Illustrated by Harold D. Bugbee. The legendary cowman-banker whose career ranged from riding with Terry's Texas Rangers to becoming a major for gallantry at Mossy Creek. He trailed longhorns to Kansas, opened huge ranges in the Panhandle and learned..... More
Heraldry of the Range, Inscribed By Carl Hertzog to Allen Maxwell
Canyon, Texas: Panhandle Plains Historicall Society, 1949. First Edition. Quarto. . 35pp. Illustrated by H.D. Bugbee. Designed by Carl Hertzog who inscribes this book to his publisher: "to Allen Maxwell, who not only puts up with my errors but suffers with me the blemishes and imperfections.", Carl Hertzog. One of..... More
Rough Times--Tough Fiber; a Fragmentary Family Chronicle
Canyon, Texas: Palo Duro Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 196p. index. Typography and photo arrangements by Carl Hertzog. A fascinating history of the author's family from early 19th century into Texas, Confederate army, and early days of ranching. Many illustrations including a number of cowboys ranching. Bound by Gerhard Schermer..... More
Poems of A Ranch Woman
Prescott, AZ: Sharlot Hall Historical Museum, 1953. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Slight beginning wear at extremities. Wear and tear at extremities. Chipped at top and bottom of spine.) Day to day living in beloved Arizona written with a flair for the dramatic..... More
The Journey of Fray Marcos De Niza
Dallas: University Press in Dallas, 1949. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 1065 copies printed at the Pass of the North, designed and produced by Carl Hertzog, title page lettered and decorated in red and black, 115pp., illustrated, large chapter initials red. Did Fray Marcos de Niza really find a place..... More
The Rediscovery of New Mexico 1580-1594, the Explorations of Chamuscado, Espejo, Castano De Sosa, Morlete, and Leyva De Bonilla and Humana
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1966. First Edition. Small Quarto. Volume III of the Coronado Historical Series. Between the famous expeditions of Coronado and Onate, five other, lesser known, reconnaissance entered the American Southwest. But after the disheartening reports f the Coronado party forty years earlier, what induced..... More
The Old Sheriff and Other True Tales
New York: Margent Press, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. First printing, 208pp., illustrated, bound in purple cloth lettered in gilt, minor spot of fading to foot and bottom edge of rear board, tape residue to endpapers, owner's name, minor bumping to corners. In all, a very good copy in very good..... More